Brahms from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Continuing our focus this week on the music of Brahms performed by our BBC Orchestras, today we've a double helping from Cardiff, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing his Variations on a Theme of Haydn as well as the Serenade No. 2. And we’ll stay in Wales for music on a smaller scale, with visits to recent festivals at Cowbridge and Hay, where Radio 3 microphones captured some of the UK’s finest musicians in intimate chamber concerts. Today, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective play Mozart, and there's Schubert and Liszt from pianist Charles Owen.

Also, we’ll be hearing music by Vivaldi and Telemann from our Ensemble in Focus, the superb Italian Baroque group Accademia Bizantina.

1pm
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jaime Martín (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K493
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in A minor for Two Violins, RV522
Alessandro Tampieri (violin)
Gabriele Pro (violin)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord and director)

Franz Schubert
Impromptu in B flat major, Op. 142 No. 3
Charles Owen (piano)

Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Germaine Tailleferre
Piano Trio
Mithras Trio

Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in E minor for flute and violin, TWV 52:e3
Marcello Gatti (flute)
Alessandro Tampieri (violin)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord and director)

Franz Liszt
The Fountains of the Villa d'Este
Charles Owen (piano)

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